Roadrunner recording group The Amity Affliction has announced details on a massive U.S. headline tour deemed the “Seems Like Forever” tour.

The fall trek, which will feature special guests Chelsea Grin, Secrets, Cruel Hand and The Plot In You, is set to get underway October 8th at Sacramento, California’s Ace of Spades and traverse across North America through early November (see attached itinerary). Tickets for all dates will be available beginning Friday, August 14th at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT via this location.

The tour celebrates the worldwide release of “Let The Ocean Take Me: Deluxe Edition” which appends The Amity Affliction’s 2014 album with two previously unreleased bonus tracks, “Skeletons” and “Forever." More...

The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival today announces additional acts for the 2015 edition: The Red Chord, Allegaeon, Rivers of Nihil, Overcast, and more. This year's edition takes place at The Palladium in Worcester, MA on April 17th, 18th, and 19th.

Headliners already announced include Testament, Between The Buried and Me, and Motionless In White. The currently revealed lineup is as follows:

Unearth has announced "The Oncoming Storm" tenth anniversary tour with Texas In July, Cruel Hand, and Armed for Apocalypse.

The band is celebrating ten years since the release of "The Oncoming Storm" and will be performing the album in its entirety each night. "That record created a lot of opportunities for us," says frontman Trevor Phipps, "we've decided to honor our fans by playing it in it's entirety for the first time ever."

"The Oncoming Storm" was released in 2004 via Metal Blade Records. Phipps continues, "In addition to playing all the songs from 'Storm,' we will also be playing different songs nightly from our other albums as well as one off our new album which is due out later this summer."

The band has been hard at work on a yet-to-be titled all new full length, which will be released this year via eOne Music. Get the tour dates here or in the tour poster below. More...

The promoters of the New England Metal and Hardcore festival are proud to announce the addition of longtime U.S. metalcore dynamos Darkest Hour to the lineup for this year's festivities.

This Saturday, March 22nd will also mark the finals for this year's ongoing Break Thru Music Presents: Battle for Metal Fest competition, the action going down at two locations simultaneously. At the Webster Theater in Hartford, Connecticut at 6pm, sets from finalists Physics of Demise, Vengeful Wake, Hollow, To Die a Legend and Dream of Scipio, We Are Nothing, Lightsbane, Rise And Resist, Imperium Mortis, Acius, Behold The Beginning and Victim Of Innocence.

Back at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts where the fest takes place, the battle will include performances from Chaos Machine, Hitlist, Onward, Begat The Nephilim, Rumors of Betrayal, Seeds Of Negligence, Along Came the Flood, Assault On The Living, Carnivora, Written In Stone, Death Rattle. The winners will of course take part in the assault on the Palladium at this year's event.

From Thursday, April 17th through Saturday the 19th over 75 bands will once again infiltrate Worcester's iconic Palladium Theatre for the annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. The currently announced lineup is as follows:

The New England Metal & Hardcore Festival is pleased to officially welcome The Metal Alliance Tour to its already punishing three-day assault.

The illustrious tour package will make a stop in Worcester on Saturday April 18th and features headliners Behemoth, alongside Metal Blade labelmates Goatwhore, with additional support from 1349, Inquisition, and Black Crown Initiate.

Celebrating its sixteenth anniversary, this year's edition of the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival will take place on April 17th, 18th, and 19th. The currently announced lineup is as follows (not the final running order): More...

Slated to take place April 17th, 18th, and 19th, the sixteenth edition of the iconic two-staged event takes place at the Worcester Palladium. Tickets for the festival are on sale now and available for purchase at this location. The currently confirmed lineup is as follows:

Cruel Hand shot an official video for one of the brutal tracks from the EP, titled "3s," featuring both high-def performance footage of the band cut-up with film from an unsettling nocturnal carrion-collecting trip in the vast Maine wilderness. Check out the video below, courtesy of Metal Injection.

The "Born Into Debt, We All Owe A Death" 7" is available for preorder at this location. The following press release was also issued about the band:

"Influenced by the likes of the Melvins, Entombed, Smashing Pumpkins and Biohazard, Cruel Hand is about Cruel Hand and there are no boundaries. The band's style puts them in a league of their own. Following an LP on 6131 Records and two subsequent LPs on Bridge 9, the upcoming Born Into Debt, We All Owe A Death 7" bears two high octane anthems and a cover to hold fans over until their next full-length is released." More...

Dragonforce announced that the band will kick off the U.S. Tour with an appearance at the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival at The Palladium in Worcester, Mass on April 21, 2012. The festival runs from April 20-22, 2012. Dragonforce will be one of the headlining acts on Saturday with All That Remains and Overkill.

The new Dragonforce record "The Power Within" is scheduled for release on April 15, 2012 through the band's own label Electric Generation Recordings.

The full lineup for the Saturday portion of the festival is as follows:

All That RemainsDragonforceOverkilliwrestledabearonceProtest the HeroPeripheryBaneBelphegorStructuresMaleficeElitistSuidakra More...

The debut full-length from Canada's Structures, "Divided By," is available now and you can catch the band out on the road across North America starting January 23rd with Stray From The Path and Cruel Hand. The upcoming Structures live shows are as follows:

Cruel Hand has announced the full run of dates for its upcoming tour of the U.S. Support on the trek is set to come from A Loss For Words, The Greenery and Maker. You can view the full list of dates, cities and venues below.

The full list of bands and dates for which they will appear has been announced for the forthcoming New England Metal And Hardcore Festival. The 2011 edition of the event is set to take place between Thursday April 14, Friday April 15, and Saturday April 16 at the Palladium in Worcester, Massachussets. The festival lineup is as follows:

Thursday, April 14:ATTACK ATTACK!VANNAMYCHILDREN MYBRIDEOUR LAST NIGHTSTRAY FROM THE PATHARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLSBULLET FOR PRETTY BOYLIONS LIONSARMOR FOR THE BROKENTHIS OR THE APOCALYPSEI THE BREATHERACROSS THE SUNTOO LATE THE HEROATTILAA PLEA FOR PURGINGDR. ACULATHE CRIMSON ARMADALEGACYCOUNTERPARTSLEGION More...

American hardcore act Cruel Hand has been added to Madball's forthcoming United States tour. The tour will now include performances from Madball, Canadian hardcore-punk act comeback Kid and Cruel Hand with local support being featured on select dates.

New York hardcore act Sick Of It All has issued the following announcement about changes to the band's upcoming tour dates:

"FYI, there's been some changes to the Persistence tour line-up for Europe in December. Unfortunately, Sepultura backed out of doing it, but we do have an awesome band filling in for them: D.R.I. - the original thrash band who taught everyone (including us) how it's done.

"The tour also now has Casey Jones and Cruel Hand added to the bill, who are both making waves in the hardcore scene and no doubt will set it off. It's a massive line up - just remember to save some of your strength for the headliner, OK? ;-)

"The venue for the December 11 show has been changed to RWE Halle in Mulheim ad Ruhr, Germany. Don't forget to come out for the New York United tour in October featuring Sick of it All and Madball. It's gonna steamroll Europe!"

The Black N Blue Bowl event will be returning to New York this year for another edition. This year will see headlining performances from the legendary Cro-Mags as well as long running hardcore veterans Madball. Also on the bill will be H20, Skarhead, Wisdom In Chains, Yuppicide, Trapped Under Ice, Sand, Incendiary, H8 Inc. and Cruel Hand with more bands to be confirmed soon. The show will take place on May 15th at Webster Hall and will kick off at 2PM. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 on the day.